ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,778, issued on March 24, was assigned to ARISTA NETWORKS INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Self-version verification for shared libraries" was invented by Ishwar Naik (Bangalore, India), Kaustav Majumdar (Bangalore, India), Manish Singhvi (Bangalore, India), Sourav Basu (Bangalore, India) and Ethan Rahn (Agoura Hills, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques that enable a shared library to perform self-version verification at the time of being dynamically loaded by a software application are provided. Self-version verification in this context refers to the process of verifying by the shared library that it is the library version ...